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The Ontology of Medically Related Social EntitiesShariq TariqSwetha GarimallaThis ontology grew out of efforts to represent the reality underlying the demographic information required by the US federal government's "meaningful use" criteria for electronic medical records and a presentation by Dr. William Hogan at the Electronic Health Record of the Future conference in Buffalo, NY (http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ehr-september-22.pdf)William Hogantestinheres ininheres_inis bearer ofbearer ofbearer_ofis aggregate ofaggregate ofaggregate_ofis member of organization2009/10/01 Alan Ruttenberg. Barry prefers generic is-member-of. Question of what the range should be. For now organization. Is organization a population? Would the same relation be used to record members of a populationPerson:Alan RuttenbergPerson:Alan RuttenbergPerson:Helen ParkinsonPerson:Helen ParkinsonRelating a legal person to an organization in the case where the legal person has a role as member of the organizationis member of organizationis-aggregate-ofBFO relation takes precedence.We anticipate BFO 2.0 including and defining this relation. When it does, we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to the BFO 2.0 relation.
trueis-component-of-aggregateAt the instance level, this relation is the named inverse of is-aggregate-of.
At the type level, however, not so.
We expect BFO 2.0 to have this relation as well, and we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to BFO's version when BFO 2.0 comes out.TeleostomiTeleostomiEuteleostomiEuteleostomiHomo/Pan/Gorilla groupHomo/Pan/Gorilla groupEukaryotaEuarchontogliresEuarchontogliresSimiiformesSimiiformesHominoideaHominoideaTetrapodaTetrapodaAmniotaAmniotaTheriaTheriaFungi/Metazoa groupFungi/Metazoa groupMetazoaMetazoaBilateriaBilateriaCoelomataCoelomataDeuterostomiaDeuterostomiaHaplorrhiniHaplorrhiniMammaliaMammaliaEumetazoaEumetazoaChordataChordataVertebrataVertebrataGnathostomataGnathostomataSarcopterygiiSarcopterygiiCraniataCraniataEutheriaEutheriaPrimatesPrimatesCatarrhiniCatarrhiniHominidaeHominidaeHomoHomoHomo sapienshuman beingHomo sapiensorganizationGROUP: OBIPERSON: Alan RuttenbergPERSON: Bjoern PetersPERSON: Philippe Rocca-SerraPERSON: Susanna SansoneAn organization is a continuant entity which can play roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.BP: The definition summarizes long email discussions on the OBI developer, roles, biomaterial and denrie branches. It leaves open if an organization is a material entity or a dependent continuant, as no consensus was reached on that. The current placement as material is therefore temporary, in order to move forward with development. Here is the entire email summary, on which the definition is based:
1) there are organization_member_roles (president, treasurer, branch
editor), with individual persons as bearers
2) there are organization_roles (employer, owner, vendor, patent holder)
3) an organization has a charter / rules / bylaws, which specify what roles
there are, how they should be realized, and how to modify the
charter/rules/bylaws themselves.
It is debatable what the organization itself is (some kind of dependent
continuant or an aggregate of people). This also determines who/what the
bearer of organization_roles' are. My personal favorite is still to define
organization as a kind of 'legal entity', but thinking it through leads to
all kinds of questions that are clearly outside the scope of OBI.
Interestingly enough, it does not seem to matter much where we place
organization itself, as long as we can subclass it (University, Corporation,
Government Agency, Hospital), instantiate it (Affymetrix, NCBI, NIH, ISO,
W3C, University of Oklahoma), and have it play roles.
This leads to my proposal: We define organization through the statements 1 -
3 above, but without an 'is a' statement for now. We can leave it in its
current place in the is_a hierarchy (material entity) or move it up to
'continuant'. We leave further clarifications to BFO, and close this issue
for now.PMID: 16353909.AAPS J. 2005 Sep 22;7(2):E274-80. Review. The joint food and agriculture organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and its role in the evaluation of the safety of veterinary drug residues in foods.organizationorganism10/21/09: This is a placeholder term, that should ideally be imported from the NCBI taxonomy, but the high level hierarchy there does not suit our needs (includes plasmids and 'other organisms')13-02-2009:
OBI doesn't take position as to when an organism starts or ends being an organism - e.g. sperm, foetus.
This issue is outside the scope of OBI.GROUP: OBI Biomaterial BranchA material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs.WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organismanimalfungusorganismplantvirushuman social roleA social role inhering in a human being.Mathias Brochhausen
William R. Hoganparty to a legal entityparty to a legal proceedingparty to a legal agreementparty to a marriage contractparty to a power of attorneygender roleA human social role borne by a human being being realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex in the context of a specific culture.Mathias Brochhausenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_rolemale gender roleA gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the male sex in the context of the culture in question.Mathias Brochhausenmale genderfemale gender roleA gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the female sex in the context of the culture in question.Mathias Brochhausenfemale genderhuman health care roleA human social role that is realized by health care processes such as seeking or providing treatment for disease and injury, diagnosing disease and injury, or undergoing diagnosis.William R. Hogan
Mathias Brochhausenhealth care rolepatient roleA role borne by an organism being as the recipient of a health care service.Mathias Brochhausenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patientpatienthealth care provider roleA human health care role inhering in an organization or human being that is realized by a process of providing health care services to an organism.Mathias Brochhausen
William R. Hoganphysician roleA health care role borne by a human being and realized by promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.Mathias Brochhausenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicianphysiciannurse roleA health care role borne by a human being and realized by the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.Mathias Brochhausenbased on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursingnursehealth care provider organization roleDefinition needed, but the idea is that we want to differentiate between provider and payer organizations. Some organizaitons have both roles (e.g., UPMC has a Hospital Division, a Physician Divison, and an Insurance Division).person health care provider rolephysician practicehospital roleA role borne by an organization and realized by providing healthcare services by healthcare professionals of multiple different disciplines of medicine and enabling stationary treatment.Mathias Brochhausenhospitalintegrated delivery networkcollection of organismsAn object aggregate of organisms.Any arbitrary collection of organisms. They need not be of the same taxonomic class. collection of humansAn object aggregate all of whose components are human beings.role in human social processesA role inhering in an entity realized by social interactions in human society.Mathias BrochhausenPrevious definition: A role played by an entity in human social processes.organization social roleA role in human social processes that inheres in an organization.Defined class that we will ultimately move to an application ontology. We are leaving here for now until we determine which application ontology: it is likely going to be an ontology that does not currently (2012-06-05) exist.
Ditto for its current descendants.William R. Hoganorganism social roleA role in human social processes that inheres in an organism.Defined class that we will ultimately move to an application ontology. We are leaving here for now until we determine which application ontology: it is likely going to be an ontology that does not currently (2012-06-05) exist.
Ditto for its current descendants.Includes animals as well as humans. For example, pet, assistance animal, animal grown for food, work animal, domesticated animal, K-9, etc. Human roles include gender role, party to legal entities, health care provider roles like doctor, nurse, etc.Previous definition: A role in human social processes played by an organism.William R. Hogan
Mathias Brochhausenorganization health care roleAn organization social role that is realized by a health care process.Previous definition: An organization social role played by an organization in health care processes.geopolitical organizationAn organization that governs the people living in a particular geographical region or aggregate of geographical regions. The geographical region it governs can change over time (such as the westward expansion of the United States and the addition of Hawaii).William R. Hogansovereign stateA geopolitical entity with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states.Per Wikipedia, the word 'nation' does not always refer to soverign states. For example, the "nation of Islam".William R. Hoganhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_statenationnation statesubnational entity1A geopolitical entity that recognizes a sovereign state as its only higher political authority.William R. Hoganmajor administrative subdivision1A subnational entity that is the primary organizational member of a nation, is subject to the full set of laws of the nation, enjoys all the privileges established under the laws of the nation, is not a member of any other geopolitical entity, and itself governs a part of the geographical region governed by the nation.geopolitical dependencyA subnational entity that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, but remains politically outside of the controlling state and controls a geographical region that is outside the controlling state's integral region.Typically, the common feature is that the dependency does not conduct foreign affairs, and relegates this authority to the sovereign state. BUt otherwise, it is largely or completely autonomous relative to the administrative subdivisions. Examples include Puerto Rico (U.S.), Guam (U.S.), Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), and Falkland Islands (United Kingdom). aggregate of organizationsAn aggregate of organizations that have some feature in common, but is not itself an organization.It is often convenient to group organizations together that otherwise might not even interact with one another. William R. Hoganaggregate of sovereign statesAn aggregate of sovereign states that share some feature in common, but is not an organization nor necessarily the outcome of some treaty among them.William R. Hoganaggregate of geopolitical organizationsAn aggregate of geopolitical organizations with some feature in common.Examples: all sovereign states whose territory is part of North America, all British Crown Dependencies, all midwestern US States, all US dependencies, etc.William R. Hoganaggregate of dependenciesaggregate of major administrative subdivisions